Here we have a script that really isn't very good, filled with contrived plot devices, but god damn do the actors try their best to make it work.
Tina Fey, whom I always find extremely likeable, is as good as she can be playing an admissions officer at Princeton who gets a call from an old classmate played by Paul Rudd, informing her that he has a student who may be the child she gave up for adoption many years ago.
From there hijinks and feelings and lessons ensue, but it's all a bit silly and really takes a lot of suspension of belief to believe the characters motives. But it is funny when it goes for funny, unfortunately it spends so much time trying to pull your heartstrings when the situation is just too unreal.
Rudd, Fey and especially Lilly Tomlin as Feys mother are all great, they truly do it give their absolute best shot, but the script just doesn't work well enough.
You'll laugh enough to make this a worthwhile watch, but there is a really strong comedy underneath all the sappy shit and you'll feel cheated you didn't get more of the former and less of the latter.
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